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    United Kingdom (Great Britain)  A kingdom in N.W. Europe, comprising England, Wales, SCOTLAND, Northern Ireland, the isle of man and the channel islands, with population 96,000,000.Capital city London and language is English with welsh and Gaelic minorities. The whole land of U.K is 230.609 sq. km.

    Religion is 52% church of England, 9% Roman catholic, 4% united reform church, 2% Methodist (Jewish, Baptist, Calvinistic Methodist and Quaker minorities).

    Livestock is sheep, cattle, pigs, poultry. Principal crops are cereals, potatoes, vegetables, fodder, Fruits, Sugar beet. Principal resources are coal, iron, china clay, limestone, granite and fish.

    Manufactures and industries are iron and steel, non ferrous metals machinery, machine tools, vehicles, aircraft, plastics, electrical goods, chemicals, cotton, wool, petroleum, ship building, pottery, thread, tweeds, bricks, glass, carpets, food and drinks, printing and publishing, rubber products, furniture, foot wear clothing.

    United Kingdom's export is a large number of manufactured goods like cars, aircrafts, carpets and ship building, pottery. United Kingdom's imports products are petroleum products meat fruits and vegetables machinery metals wood and pulp wool paper tobacco raw cotton oils and fats.

    Main ports of Great Britain are Liverpool, London, hull, g, Glasgow, Belfast, Manchester and Southampton. Main universities are 42. The oldest being is Oxford, Cambridge and St. Andrews.
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    Ranajee82  

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